Azorean Identity in Brazil and the United States: Arguments about History, Culture, and Transnational Connections
This comparative investigation of Azorean identity formation in southern Brazil and southeastern New England explores how immigrants and their descendants actively create local, national, and transnational connections and discourses of belonging. These two outposts of the Azorean diaspora have very different settlement histories: the Azorean settlement of Santa Catarina dates back to the mid-18th century and has not been augmented by any new immigration for over 250 years; Azorean emigration to southeastern New England is largely a 19th and 20th century phenomenon that has led to the formation of large ethnic communities. The surprise at the heart of this book is that despite these very different immigration histories, collective interest in Azorean culture and public manifestations of Azoreanness are quite prominent in both places. The contrasts between these two very differently situated identity narratives offer insight into the variable and sometimes rather counter-intuitive processes of ethnic formation. These findings are pertinent to debates about the nature of ethnic identity and transnational communities.
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Azorean Identity in Brazil and the United States: Arguments about History, Culture, and Transnational Connections
This comparative investigation of Azorean identity formation in southern Brazil and southeastern New England explores how immigrants and their descendants actively create local, national, and transnational connections and discourses of belonging. These two outposts of the Azorean diaspora have very different settlement histories: the Azorean settlement of Santa Catarina dates back to the mid-18th century and has not been augmented by any new immigration for over 250 years; Azorean emigration to southeastern New England is largely a 19th and 20th century phenomenon that has led to the formation of large ethnic communities. The surprise at the heart of this book is that despite these very different immigration histories, collective interest in Azorean culture and public manifestations of Azoreanness are quite prominent in both places. The contrasts between these two very differently situated identity narratives offer insight into the variable and sometimes rather counter-intuitive processes of ethnic formation. These findings are pertinent to debates about the nature of ethnic identity and transnational communities.
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Azorean Identity in Brazil and the United States: Arguments about History, Culture, and Transnational Connections

Azorean Identity in Brazil and the United States: Arguments about History, Culture, and Transnational Connections

Azorean Identity in Brazil and the United States: Arguments about History, Culture, and Transnational Connections

Azorean Identity in Brazil and the United States: Arguments about History, Culture, and Transnational Connections

Overview

This comparative investigation of Azorean identity formation in southern Brazil and southeastern New England explores how immigrants and their descendants actively create local, national, and transnational connections and discourses of belonging. These two outposts of the Azorean diaspora have very different settlement histories: the Azorean settlement of Santa Catarina dates back to the mid-18th century and has not been augmented by any new immigration for over 250 years; Azorean emigration to southeastern New England is largely a 19th and 20th century phenomenon that has led to the formation of large ethnic communities. The surprise at the heart of this book is that despite these very different immigration histories, collective interest in Azorean culture and public manifestations of Azoreanness are quite prominent in both places. The contrasts between these two very differently situated identity narratives offer insight into the variable and sometimes rather counter-intuitive processes of ethnic formation. These findings are pertinent to debates about the nature of ethnic identity and transnational communities.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781933227313
Publisher: Tagus Press
Publication date: 04/12/2011
Series: Portuguese in the Americas Series , #1
Pages: 192
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

JOÃO LEAL, Associate Professor of Anthropology at the New University of Lisbon, has written extensively on Portuguese culture and history.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments Introduction: Old and New Immigrants NEW ENGLAND Fall River: The Festival and the Parade The Community and Its Civil Society Azorean-American Ethnicity: Tradition and Translation The Variable Geometries of Transnationalism Silences within the Parade and the Futures of Ethnicity SANTA CATARINA The Azoreanist Movement: From the Elites to the Masses
"We Azorean": Ancestors and Descendants Azoreanist Activists: Scholars, Artists, and Cultural Producers Azoreans, Germans, Gauchos: Cultural Wars and Politics of Identity Conclusion: Identity and Culture Interviews and Works Cited

What People are Saying About This

Caroline Brettell

Azorean Identity in Brazil and the United States offers an insightful and rich ethnographic comparison of how identities are formed and transformed among Azoreans in New England and Brazil. The book touches on a host of questions of critical concern in contemporary immigration studies: transnationalism, the second generation, ethnicity, and the politics of culture.

Kimberly DaCosta Holton

“Azorean Identity in Brazil and the United States offers a rare, multi-sited portrayal of immigration and expressive culture focused on two hot spots of Azorean settlement. This is a fascinating comparative study and an important ethnography for scholars of Lusophone culture.”

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